Most young men during the Vietnam era faced a choice, whether or not to be drafted into the US Armed Forces. For Jim Fleming, and his friends Robert Cardinaux and Mark Peterson, the chose to become Conscientious Objectors. They worked together in alternative service as psychiatric aides.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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We are part of an immensely creative universe. Cosmologist Brian Swimme and Religion scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker explain.
David Michaelis tells Steve Paulson that Charles Schultz put a lot of himself into the Charlie Brown character, was greatly influenced by his mid-Western upbringing.
Christa Parravani talks about her book, "Her," a memoir about the special bond she shares with her identical twin sister.
Jon Ronson believes capitalism favors psychopaths and is creating more of them.
Alexander Stille tells Steve Paulson how poetry became a political weapon in Somalia’s revolution.
University of Tennessee Associate Professor Amy Elias identifies the three types of postmodernism for Jim Fleming.
Information overload seems to be the quintessential 21st century problem. Actually, people have worried about this for centuries, going back to the ancient Romans. Ann Blair provides a short history of information-gathering.
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